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Birth (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Mir Talismana (Russian)
Planet Busters
Świat Talizmanu (Polish)
World of the Talisman
Мир Талисмана (Russian)
Рождение (Russian)
バース (Japanese)
Themes: mecha
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Nam's home planet of Aqualoid has become a barren wasteland since the invasion of the Inorganics.While running from the Inorganics, Nam meets Rasa,her blob Munga,and a lecherous shipcaptain.The group soon discover SHADE, a sword with the power to control Aqualoid and give power back to its people. There's just one problem,every Inorganic on the planet wants to see the sword destroyed and Nam and his crew dead.
User Ratings: 49 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 3 votes (dub:1, ?:1, sub:1)
 Very good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Good: 12 votes (sub:6, dub:5, edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 9 votes (dub:6, sub:3)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Not really good: 4 votes (dub:2, sub:2)
 Weak: 4 votes (dub:3, Kor.dub:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (dub:3, sub:3)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 102 users, rank: #2300
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.306 (So-so+.30), std. dev.: 2.4428, rank: #3714
Weighted mean: 5.248 (So-so+.24), rank: #3711 (seen all: 5.24 / seen some: 7.00 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 5.631 (Decent-.36), rank: #2970
Running time: 80 minutes
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage: 1984-09-05
Releases: We have 2
Official website:
Atlus (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 3
Comment:
Previously released by Streamline pictures as Planet Busters.
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Related releases:
    Birth (DVD) 2009-03-17 (from $8.99)
    Birth (DVD) 2004-07-13 (from $11.98)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Shinya Sadamitsu

Music: Joe Hisaishi

Character Design:
Koretaku Kanda
Yoshinori Kanada

Art director: Geki Katsumata

Animation director: Yoshinori Kanada

Mecha design:
Makoto Kobayashi
Shohei Kohara
Shouhei Obara

Director of Photography: Teiji Sano

Producer: Satohiro Nagao

Animation:
Atsuko Ishida
Atsunori Kazama
Eiko Yamauchi
Hajime Kamegaki
Hideaki Anno
Hirotoshi Sano
Jun Kiguchi
Jun Sanjou
Kazuhiko Ishii
Kazunori Takahashi
Keiji Nakamura
Ken'ichi Watanuke (?)
Kenichi Ohnuki
Kenji Hoshikoshi
Kiyotoshi Aoi
Kouichi Mikami
Kouichi Wada
Kouji Fujita
Kouji Itou
Kouji Usui
Mahiro Maeda
Makiko Kaneda
Masaaki Usu (?)
Masakatsu Iijima
Masanori Nishii
Mayumi Hayashida
Miyuki Nakano
Noriyuki Tokinaga
Senko Minami
Taira Sanuki (?)
Takahiro Toyomasu
Takashi Sogabe
Takeshi Takeda (?)
Takuya Wada
Tomoko Etou
Toshihiko Hashimoto
Toyoo Yamauchi
Yorihisa Uchida
Yoshiake Akebane
Yuuji Arita
Yuuji Ogata

Animation Check:
Mayumi Watanabe
Osamu Yamazaki

Animation Coordination:
Mutsumi Inomata
Shigenori Kageyama

Color design: Satoru Sayama

Editing:
Masahiro Matsumura
Shuichi Kakesu

Main Animator:
Hideki Tamura
Kazuhiro Ochi
Masahito Yamashita
Mutsumi Inomata
Osamu Nabeshima
Sachiko Tada
Shigenori Kageyama
Shinsaku Agatsuma
Takafumi Hayashi
Toshio Kawaguchi
Yoshinori Kanada

Music Director: Noriyoshi Matsuura

Sound Effects:
Katsumi Ito
Yasuyuki Konno

 

Ichirô Nagai as Bao

Kaneto Shiozawa as Kim

Chika Sakamoto as Munyo

Fuyumi Shiraishi as Mongaa

Jouji Yanami as Jii

Kazuki Yao as Namu Shurugi

Keiko Toda as Arlia

Kôzô Shioya as Soldier C

Masahiro Anzai as Ko-oni (?)

Miina Tominaga as Rasa Yupiter

Miki Takahashi as Orissa

Noriko Tsukase as Baby

Reiko Suzuki as Baa

Ryunosuke Ohbayashi as Soldier A

Youko Kogayu as Mogo

Yuusaku Yara as Soldier B

Japanese companies 

Distributor: Victor Entertainment

Production:
Idol
Kaname Production

English cast 
English staff 

Director: Lowell Bartholomee (ADV Version)

Music: Randy Miller (Streamline Version)

ADR Script: David Carren (ADV Version)

Executive producer:
John Ledford (ADV version)
Mark Williams (ADV version)

Producer: Lowell Bartholomee (ADV Version)

Adaptation: Gregory Snegoff (Streamline version)

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams (ADV version)

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami (ADV version)

Project Translator: Masako Ollivier (ADV Version)

Senior Translator: Shoko Oono (ADV Version)

Bradley Carlin as Kim

James Phillips as Bao

Tony Oliver as Talon

Alexis Chamov as Rasa

Brent Werzner as Nam

Cyndi Williams as
Mu-nyo
Nam's Ostrich

Garry Peters as Grandpa

Gemma Wilcox as Arlia

Jeffery Mills as Inorganic Biker Kid

Mary Agen Cox as Grandma

Matt Hislope as
Inorganic Biker #2
Monga

Rebecca Forstadt as Child

Robert Matney as Inorganic Biker #1

Robert S. Fisher as
Inorganic Biker #3
Monster Octopus
Orange Mole

Samantha Inoue-Harte as Village Girl

Vinnie Moxpar as Giant Inorganic

English companies 

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor: ADV Films (UK) (UK)

Dubbing: Monster Island

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

 
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